* 2012 – The Republican National Convention takes place in Tampa Bay, Florida.

Kid Rock will perform alongside Lynyrd Skynyrd and Trace Adkins at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa Florida.

The last General Conference was held in Tampa, Florida, in 2012.

Tampa hosted the 2012 Republican National Convention.

In September 2012, Naxos released a live version of Delius's Sea Drift and Appalachia performed by the Florida Orchestra and The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay.

In 2012, Republican candidates must earn 1144 delegates to receive the GOP nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida beginning August 27.

On June 2nd, 2012, Sleep played a headlining set in the Scion A / V Rock Fest in Tampa, FL.

Oates then turned to coaching, serving as an assistant for the Tampa Bay Lightning and New Jersey Devils prior to joining the Capitals as their head coach for the 2012 – 13 NHL season.

As of June 2012, Southwest Airlines offers non-stop service to several Florida cities: Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Orlando, Tampa, and West Palm Beach, as well its focus city in Baltimore, which offers connections throughout the entire Southwest system.

On April 11, 2012, the Silver Airways announced officially that it will offer daily passenger flights from Gainesville Regional Airport to Orlando International Airport and Tampa International Airport beginning from April 15, 2012.

It was reported that Jean will be attending the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa.

On May 17, 2012, it was announced that Berkshire Hathaway will be acquiring Media General's newspaper division ( excluding The Tampa Tribune ) for $ 142 million in cash ; these newspapers will be merged into Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary BH Media Group under the World Media Enterprises division, a sister division to the Omaha World-Herald Company.

* On September 13, 2012, in Baltimore, Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon moved DH Evan Longoria to third base as a defensive substitution in the ninth inning of a tied game.

* VSI Tampa Flames ( 2012 -)

It was held in Tampa, Florida at the University of South Florida from July 30-August 9, 2012, The 4th Asian Rope Skipping Championship was held on 9 February 2007 at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium, New Delhi, India, organized by the Rope Skipping Federation of India.

In April 2012, the " Historic Tampa Cuban Sandwich " was designated as the " signature sandwich of the city of Tampa " by Tampa's city council.

Plans are also in the works for another International Food Not Bombs Gathering to take place August 20 – 26, 2012, in Tampa, Florida-the week before the Republican National Convention.

In his Major League Baseball career, Damon has played for the Kansas City Royals ( 1995 – 00 ), Oakland Athletics ( 2001 ), Boston Red Sox ( 2002 – 05 ), New York Yankees ( 2006 – 09 ), Detroit Tigers ( 2010 ), Tampa Bay Rays ( 2011 ) and Cleveland Indians ( 2012 ).

In January 2012, the facility was renamed Tampa Bay Times Forum, in keeping with the renaming of the St. Petersburg Times.

On April 21, 2012, The Tampa Bay Times Forum was host to Rammstein on their Made In Germany tour.

The Tampa Bay Times Forum hosted the 2012 Republican National Convention.

In March 2012, New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain seriously injured his ankle while jumping at a commercial jump centre in Tampa with his son.

* The Bay ( film ), a film that premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival

During the 2012 season the Green Bay Packer's took over the mantle of " America's Team " according to an ESPN article.

From 2008 to 2012, the company was run through a holding company of NRDC, Hudson's Bay Trading Company, which was dissolved on 23 January 2012.

On 23 January 2012, The Financial Post reported that Richard Baker ( owner of NDRC and governor of Hudson Bay's Company ) had dissolved Hudson ’ s Bay Trading Company and that the Hudson's Bay Company would now also operate the Lord & Taylor chain.

On January 15th, 2012, the Giants defeated the Green Bay Packers 37 – 20.

* Ki Longfellow, China Blues, Eio Books 2012, ISBN 0-9759255-7-1 Warren Harding looms large in this story of 1920s San Francisco in which Harding dies during his visit to the City by the Bay.

Omar Khadr remained in Guantanamo Bay as of July 2012, and the Canadian government continued to face international criticism for their stonewalling of his repatriation.

Two further books in the series, Jaws of Death and Dead Man's Bay, will be released in April 2011 and 2012 respectively.

Route 52 northbound leaving Somers Point Circle, since replaced with a signalized intersection. Between 2006 and 2012, a new $ 400 million causeway was built to replace the 1930s bridges over the Great Egg Harbor Bay.

It was finally delivered to Bay City, Michigan on August 7th 2012.

* Margaritaville Casino and Restaurant, on the Back Bay, opened in May 2012.

Members of the Bay Head Borough Council are Council President John M. Berko ( R, 2011 ), Jennifer Barnes-Gambert ( R, 2011 ), John DeFilippis ( R, 2013 ), Mary Stockton Glass ( R, 2012 ), D ’ Arcy Rohan Green ( R, 2012 ) and James A. Urner ( R, 2013 ).

* Dale Moss-Signed with the Green Bay Packers following the 2012 NFL Draft.

As of 2012, the Ministry of Defence is conducting a 12 month investigation of the contamination to try and avoid Dalgety Bay " becoming the first place in the UK to be legally designated as radioactive contaminated land ".

As of 2012, the Ministry of Defence is conducting a 12 month investigation of the contamination to try and avoid Dalgety Bay " becoming the first place in the UK to be legally designated as radioactive contaminated land ".

By July 2012, Aronofsky's crews were building an ark set in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.

* FM 104. 5-CKQV-1, Hot AC / CHR ( rebroadcaster of CKQV-FM Vermilion Bay, Ontario ) ( applied to move to FM 104. 3 in May 2012 )

Tugboat races are held annually on Elliott Bay in Seattle, on the Hudson River at the New York Tugboat Race, the Detroit River, and the Great Tugboat Race and Parade ( 2012 event was on June 29 – 30 ) on the St. Mary's River

In July, 2012, a press release from Anchor Bay announced that the movie would be released on Blu-ray and DVD on October 2, 2012 and would include the deleted scene, involving a throat being cut, which caused the NC-17 rating.